The story unfolds in an America that is at war, the French and English want to dominate

this territory, for which they are in dispute for control, an attack by the Fraceses is
directed to the territory "Fort William Henry", for this General Webb sends
reinforcements to Colonel Munro, and later, the daughters of Colonel Munro insist on
going to Fort William Henry to see his father, for this, Webb sends Commander Heiward to
accompany them on the tour, time later an Indian running up to them, the name of this
Indian is Magua, a subordinate of Webb, who tells them to teach them a secret path that
only the Indians know, while walking, they find a person that seems to be lost in the
forest, his name is Gamut and shows interest in joining the group with Magua, Heywards,
and the daughters of Colonel Munro, then it is known that he is a psalmist, a person who
sings psalms and teaches about religion

Commander Heywards and the group arrive in a forest, which seems to be inhabited by
hostile indigenous tribes, according to what Magua says, so everyone is silent.

In the other part of the forest we can find other characters that apparently are two
hunters and an Indian, these are Hawkeye, a white hunter and Chingachgook, his Mohican
ally. , who are discussing what happened and how they got to where they were at that
moment in the forest, the disappearance of the Mohicans and other issues, they were
careful not to get the attention of the enemy, which were the Maquas, then this group
listens to the footprints of horses in which they see a group, this group is that of
Heywards, Magua and the daughters of Munro, at first these groups suspect one of
another, but then they sit down to eat together, so there was suspicion among the two
groups Heywards shoots him with a magua rifle, but he manages to escape, then the other
group tells him they have made a lot of noise so they have to move, they go down the
river, but at a time when the Gamut mare It makes a lot of noise so the Mohicans killed it
and the body was thrown into the river, the rest of the way they travel in canoes, after
this they arrive at a cave in which they take refuge, all eat and share, while, Gamut is in a
duel for his dead mare, after a while, you hear There was a strange noise for what
Hawkeye went to investigate (Hawkeye was an Indian who was in the other group), after
this noise Hawkeye realizes that they are the cries of a cabillo which confirms by a few
wolf but after this hears several howls of wolves as if they were approaching so the group
believed that the Indians were nearby, Hawkeye made them hide under the moonlight,
where he stays to watch while the others sleep.